Author: John Hammer

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There are certainly more prestigious golf tournaments than the Wyndham Championship but there can’t be a friendlier golf tournament on the PGA tour. Every year I’m impressed with how nice people are. Now some of the signs that...

It seems in Greensboro, anything can be made controversial, even locating a charter school downtown. Evidently, according to at least one candidate for the Greensboro City Council, the downtown should be set aside for homeless...

Once a year, when County Editor Scott Yost is taking his well-deserved vacation, I attend a Guilford County commissioners meeting. Last week was my week.   For about 10 years I attended all the meetings of the Guilford...

After reading the editorial in the News & Recordon Wednesday, August 2, about House Bill 205 – to open public notice and legal advertising to the free market system, which was passed by the legislature and vetoed by Gov. Roy...

The liberal mainstream newspapers like to attack lobbyists, except when the lobbyists are working for the mainstream newspapers. The mainstream newspapers successfully lobbied North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and convinced him to...

Every member of the Greensboro City Council should be required to attend a Board of Adjustment meeting. For some reason, these meetings are not televised, perhaps because the belief is that no one would voluntarily sit down and...

Guilford County tried to be nice to the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) in 2015 when it found itself being sued over a law it had nothing to do with, but playing nice didn’t work. Guilford County is now being sued...

I attended the National Crisis of Race and Policing meeting initiated by the Beloved Community Center at Bethel AME Church on Monday, July 11. A number of liberal and black organizations were listed as sponsors, but it turned...

Judging from the number of comments we have received about the column “City Council Wants Health Care for Life,” I thought I’d go into more detail about exactly what the resolution the City Council passed at the June 20 meeting...

It appears that Greensboro will be getting a long awaited hotel on South Elm Street, but it wouldn’t be happening if not for the work of state Rep. Jon Hardister and state Sen. Trudy Wade, in the final hours of the legislative...

Last year the Greensboro City Council gave itself a 60 percent raise. The average city worker got a 3 percent raise. So the City Council gave itself a raise 20 times greater than it gave city employees. Evidently that was not...

Paid circulation newspapers and their highly paid lobbyists are wailing and gnashing their teeth over the passage of a bill sponsored by state Sen. Trudy Wade that primarily does two things concerning newspapers. One, it removes...

I watched the video of the fatal shooting of Philando Castile by St. Anthony, Minnesota, Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez numerous times, read summaries of the testimony at the trial and read a transcript of the interview Yanez did...